nice mallard; obnoxious picture?

[jackbreakfast]

GREETINGS, FOLKS!

Here's a bird. Which one is it? You know how mallards are, they'll get busy with any old duck! Any guesses on the combination here? Also, I vignetted this picture and it's probably pretty pretentious and embarrassing but it's an effect that can look nice so long as you don't run amok with it? Anyhow, maybe you'll share your thoughts? Actually it doesn't look DAY AND NIGHT from the original, but there is that VERY PRETENTIOUS stylized look. Maybe? Obviously I like it a little bit or else wouldn't share it, but it's important to know when one is also being a phony jerk!
Yours very truly,
Jerk Breakfast

[MEGHAN]

David,

I think this photograph is beautiful and I usually don't give the Mallards a second glance, except to glare at them as they sswim into any picture I try to take of anything else in the water.
As for what it's a combination of,...who knows. I once say a Mallard trying to mate with a Canada Goose. :shock:
Didn't really go as planned but he gave it the old college try anyways.

[Irene]

David, beautiful shot, it could be a hybrid of somekind or, I have seen fluffy feathers like this in some Canada Geese: the cause, eating too much bread and not their natural foods, they call it angel wings or something like that

[jackbreakfast]

Truly fascinating, Irene. Many thanks for sharing that...